Dorothy Allison

Greenville es un lugar turbulento y exuberante de nogales negros y sauces llorones y también la cuna de la familia Boatwright. En el centro de esta sorprendente novela está Bone, una niña bastarda con una anotacion en su certificado de nacimiento para airear el cuento. Observandolo todo con la implacable perspicacia de los ojos de un niño, Bone se encuentra a si misma atrapada en un triangulo familiar que pondra a prueba la lealtad de su madre, Anney. Encuadernacion: Rustica.

Desde un pequeño pueblo de Carolina del Sur, en los años cincuenta, nos llega la voz de una niña, Bone, hija de una madre soltera de quince años. Bone es miembro de una extensa familia de la clase más desfavorecida, los Boatwright, cuyos hombres tienen a gala pasar grandes temporadas en la carcel debido a su aficion a las peleas y el alcohol y cuyas mujeres son esposas amantes y maternales. Bastarda profundiza con maestria en los complejos sentimientos de una niña capaz de amar, odiar, sentir deseo, angustia y miedo. La violencia sexual ejercida sobre los menores es expuesta en esta novela con descarnado realismo pero con piedad, no solo hacia la victima sino tambien hacia el adulto abusador.

Trash, Allisons landmark collection, laid the groundwork for her critically acclaimed Bastard Out of Carolina, the National Book Award finalist that was hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "simply stunning...a wonderful work of fiction by a major talent." In addition to Allisons classic stories, this new edition of Trash features "Stubborn Girls and Mean Stories," an introduction in which Allison discusses the writing of Trash and "Compassion," a never-before-published short story.First published in 1988, the award-winning Trash showcases Allison at her most fearlessly honest and startlingly vivid. The limitless scope of human emotion and experience are depicted in stories that give aching and eloquent voice to the terrible wounds we inflict on those closest to us. These are tales of loss and redemption; of shame and forgiveness; of love and abuse and the healing power of storytelling. A book that resonates with uncompromising candor and incandescence, Trash is sure to captivate Allisons legion of readers and win her a devoted new following.

Haunted by her past choices, Delia Byrd embarks on a journey of redemption as she returns to the place she once called home.When Delia packs up her old Datsun and her daughter Cissy and gets on the Santa Monica Freeway heading south and east, she is leaving everything she has known for ten years: the tinsel glitter of the rock n roll world; her dreams of singing and songwriting; and a life lived on credit cards and whiskey with a man who made promises he couldnt keep. Delia Byrd is going back to Cayro, Georgia, to reclaim her life--and the two daughters she left behind...Told in the incantatory voice of one of Americas most eloquent storytellers, Cavedweller is a sweeping novel of the human spirit, the lost and hidden recesses of the heart, and the place where violence and redemption intersect.

About as close to flawless as any reader could ask forThe New York Times Book ReviewFor anyone who has ever felt the contempt of a self-righteous world, this book will resonate within you like a gospel choir. For anyone who hasnt, this book will be an education Barbara Kingsolver Carolina in the 1950s, and Bone - christened Ruth Anna Boatwright - lives a happy life, in and out of her aunts houses, playing with her cousins on the porch, sipping ice tea, loving her little sister Reece and her beautiful young mother. But Glen Waddell has been watching them all, wanting her mother too, and when he promises a new life for the family, her mother gratefully accepts. Soon Bone finds herself in a different, terrible world, living in fear, and an exile from everything she knows. Bastard Out of Carolina is a raw, poignant tale of fury, power, love and family.This editon contains an introduction by the author. Dorothy Allison was awarded the 2007 Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction, and has been likened to Flannery OConnor, William Faulkner and Harper Lee.

Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, she takes a probing look at her familys history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next. Illustrated with photographs from the authors personal collection, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure tells the story of the Gibson women -- sisters, cousins, daughters, and aunts -- and the men who loved them, often abused them, and, nonetheless, shared their destinies. With luminous clarity, Allison explores how desire surprises and what power feels like to a young girl as she confronts abuse. As always, Dorothy Allison is provocative, confrontational, and brutally honest. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, steeped in the hard-won wisdom of experience, expresses the strength of her unique vision with beauty and eloquence.

El condado de Greenville, en Carolina del Sur, es un lugar salvaje y exuberante, hermoso y terrible. Allí vive la familia Boatwright, un clan de hombres bebedores que disparan a los camiones ajenos y de mujeres ingobernables que se casan demasiado pronto y envejecen demasiado rapido. Una estirpe regida por el desempleo, la inestabilidad, la violencia y los embarazos adolescentes. En el corazon de esta novela autobiografica sobre una joven que se enfrenta al abuso y la traicion, se encuentra Ruth Anne Boatwright, apodada Bone, una niña bastarda que observa y narra el mundo que la rodea con una mirada despiadada y lucida, con una mezcla de naturalidad y agallas, y tambien con un humor irreverente y sin escrupulos. Su desgarradora historia rezuma rabia, pero tambien generosidad y amor.

Tras la extraordinaria «Bastarda» —aclamada de inmediato como obra maestra—, Dorothy Allison regresa como una de las escritoras más apasionadas y talentosas de su generación. Y lo consigue con una ob